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The best ballpark hot dog ever? Probably the first one I ate at the end of a sixteen-hour Friday (you pick one) working in California. We’d do these 50-cent Fridays, where hot dogs and other items were 50 cents. Believe it or not, people would come in droves for these days. Continue reading →

“Time misspent” was supposed to apply to the parts of eight seasons I spent working in minor league baseball, forsaking a real corporate life for bus trips up I-29, “taxing the spread” when major league rehabbers bought dinner for the team and grabbing a beer or two after the last game of a ten-game homestand. Continue reading →

I know this one is a little late, but I want some cents on Jim Joyce. People don’t realize exactly what goes into being an umpire. These guys work their way up through the minor leagues, just like the players … Continue reading →